Software Extensibility using Serverless Tech with Glenn Block
Serverless technology can extend your applications! Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Block about his work at Auth0 and building out WebHooks. Glenn talks about taking WebHooks to the next level with Extend, providing a SaaS offering for extensibility into other SaaS applications. This leads to a conversation about the architecture of extensibility in the cloud - rather than building a ton of features, let your customers extend your software the way they want!
Guests:
Glenn Block
Glenn Block is a seasoned leader with 20 years+ experience in software engineering and product management. He currently works at Microsoft on the Core Ecosystem Team where his team is responsible for Microsoft Graph and several services in M365. In the past Glenn has been a big supporter of the developer and open source community and was an early adopter of Open Source at Microsoft. He is passionate about moving the ball forward for creating a more inclusive and safe environment in tech. He invests a large amount of his energy in mentoring and advising in particular for black women / folks from marginalized groups, and is actively working to change the status quo. He is a lifelong learner and is currently pursuing his Exec MBA at Seattle University. Glenn lives with his wife and 16 year old daughter in Seattle.
Links:
- Behind the Tech https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/
- ScriptCS http://scriptcs.net/
- AutoFac https://autofac.org/
- WebTask https://webtask.io/?utm_medium=podcast
- Extend https://goextend.io/
- SalesForce Apex https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Apex
- Auth0 https://auth0.com/
- Zapier https://zapier.com/
- The Modern Web Tour https://www.telerik.com/blogs/join-progress-microsoft-and-dotnet-rocks-modern-web-tour-central-europe
- Apollo Launchpad https://launchpad.graphql.com
- Meteor https://www.meteor.com/
- oData http://www.odata.org/
- Apollo GraphQL https://www.apollographql.com/
- GraphiQL https://github.com/graphql/graphiql
- Wonderware Online InSight https://on.wonderware.com/wonderware-online-extend-by-auth0
- How we built LaunchPad https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/how-we-built-launchpad-cb09cbf39ab6
- Glenn's classes on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/glenn-block